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Irish coffee is one of the most popular alcoholic drinks in the world. Irish Whiskey and Guinness being two more world famous drinks from Ireland.
Irish coffee (Irish: Caife Gaelach) is a cocktail consisting of hot coffee, Irish whiskey, and sugar, stirred, and topped with thick cream floated on the top of the coffee.
How to serve and drink the perfect Irish coffee
Irish coffee is drunk through the cream. The original recipe explicitly uses cream that has not been whipped, although whipped cream is often used. Irish coffee may be considered a variation on the hot toddy.
When was Irish coffee first invented?
The origin of the Irish coffee is highly disputed. According to certain sources the original Irish coffee was invented by Joseph Sheridan, a head chef at Foynes, County Limerick but originally from Castlederg, County Tyrone.
Foynes' port was the precursor to Shannon International Airport in the west of Ireland.
Joe Sheridan's Original Irish Coffee Recipe
Ingredients
1 measure Irish whiskey
1 measure strong black coffee
2 teaspoons sugar
2 teaspoons fresh whipping cream
Directions
Heat the glass with boiling water so that it is good and hot. Add the whiskey, sugar and the hot coffee. Float the cream on top of the coffee. Do this by pouring the cream into a spoon rested just on the surface of the coffee. Let the cream flow into the bowl of the spoon and overflow onto the coffee. Lift the spoon as the cream builds up, so that a layer of cream builds up on top of the coffee. Since it is the sugar that allows the cream to float successfully do not try this in coffee without sugar. Do not stir. Irish coffee is best enjoyed by sipping the coffee through the cream.
The Irish coffee was conceived after a group of American passengers disembarked from a Pan Am flying boat on a miserable winter evening in the 1940s. Sheridan added whiskey to the coffee to warm the passengers. After the passengers asked if they were being served Brazilian coffee, Sheridan told them it was Irish coffee.
How Irish coffee became so popular worldwide
Stanton Delaplane, a travel writer for the San Francisco Chronicle, brought Irish coffee to the United States after drinking it at Shannon Airport, when he worked with the Buena Vista Cafe in San Francisco to start serving Irish coffee on November 10, 1952, and worked with the bar owners Jack Koeppler and George Freeberg to recreate the Irish method for floating the cream on top of the coffee, sampling the Irish coffee one night until he nearly passed out.
Making a row of perfect Irish coffees at the Buena Vista Cafe in San Francisco
The group also sought help from the city's then mayor, George Christopher, who owned a dairy and suggested that cream aged at least 48 hours would be more apt to float on a Irish coffee. Delaplane popularized Irish coffee by mentioning it frequently in his travel column, which was widely read throughout America. In later years, after the Buena Vista had served, by its count, more than 30 million Irish coffees, Delaplane and the owners grew tired of Irish coffee. A friend commented that the problem with Irish coffee is that it ruins three good drinks: coffee, cream, and whiskey.
The origin of the Irish coffee is of course Ireland, but the one closest to the original can be found in San Francisco, California at the Buena Vista.
Tom Bergin's Tavern in Los Angeles, also claims to have been the originator and has had a large sign in place reading "House of Irish Coffee" since the early 1950s.
In Spain a "Café Irlandés" ("Irish Coffee") is sometimes served with a bottom layer of whiskey, a separate coffee layer, and a layer of cream on top. Special devices are sold for making Café Irlandés.
Not so perfect Irish coffee.
Other sources claim that Joe Jackson perfected the recipe at Jacksons Hotel, Ballybofey, Co. Donegal.
Ingredients
2 parts Irish whiskey. 1tsp brown sugar. 4 parts coffee. and 1½ parts cream.
making
Pour whiskey into glass. add in sugar, stirred until fully dissolved.
prepare black coffee to taste, do not boil.
add coffee to whiskey mix. gently stir.
pour in the cream slowly over a spoon that has been heated in a mug of boiling water.
Italians making traditional Irish coffee.
Black coffee is poured into the mug. Whiskey and at least one level teaspoon of sugar is stirred in until fully dissolved. The sugar is essential for floating liquid cream on top. Thick cream is carefully poured over the back of a spoon initially held just above the surface of the coffee and gradually raised a little. The layer of cream will float on the coffee without mixing. The coffee is drunk through the layer of cream.
To ensure the integrity of the ingredients of Irish Coffee, NSAI, Ireland's national standards body, published an Irish Standard, I.S. 417 Irish Coffee, in 1988.
Donegal claim to Irish coffee
Celebrate the invention of Irish coffee at Jackson's this weekend
Published on Thursday 27 August 2009
Not a lot of people know this, but Irish coffee was actually invented by a Donegal man. And a Ballybofey hotel is celebrating the fact with the first ever Joe Jackson Perpetual Cup competition for Best Irish Coffee this weekend, as part of the Twin Towns Festival.
Yes, there have been pretenders to the throne, most notably a barman at Shannon airport and two men at a caf in San Francisco.
But we can reveal the truth here and now. Irish coffee - that most delicious of concoctions - was created by none other than the late Joe Jackson, of Jackson's Hotel, Ballybofey.
Joe, who was originally from Derry, was in the Merchant Navy during WWII. One night, in the north Atlantic, his ship was torpedoed by an enemy sub. To help him recover from hypothermia, Joe was given a traditional Navy remedy, a mixture of coffee and rum. Later, as he served on ships in the eastern Mediterranean, he tasted a number of drinks made from cream, sugar and various types of spirits.
When he returned home to his wife Margaret (ne Slevin of Ruskey near Convoy), who had bought a hotel in Ballybofey in 1945, they soon started serving Irish coffees and other specialty drinks in their bar. The drink's reputation spread when in the early 1950s, a Scottish motoring magazine, described Joe's amazing new drink.
So why not celebrate one of Donegal's least-known but best-loved achievements? Come along to Jackson's Hotel, Ballybofey on Friday or Saturday night from 9pm. There, under the watchful eye of Joe's son Barry and his wife Margaret, you can either try your hand at creating the perfect Irish coffee or sample the best efforts of aspiring bartenders.
And we're pleased to announce, this will be an annual event!
donegaldemocrat.ie/news/local/celebrate_the_invention_of_irish_coffee_at_jackson_s_this_weekend_1_1995832
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